ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Pkb Press Association J Nelson, May 8. At the inquest on tin- body found near J\turchison yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that the' remains were those of William Gill Rees, and that the evidence indicated acatn uue fo poison self-administered. Wellington, May 8. A telegraph messenger, Uuarles Payton, while riding his bicycle in Cuba street, collided with a milk-cart, iitid was removed to the hospital with a fractured skull. Gisborne, May 8. The police are advised that a man named Robert Pole, supposed to have recently come from Lower Hutt, was drowned at the mouth of tiie Awatere river, near Te Araroa, to-day. Pole was attempting to cross the river in a boat, and was earired by the I stream into the breakers at the river mouth, where the boat up^et. luvereargill, May 8. Inspector Norwood received advice to-day that a young man named Niel McAuley, aged 24, bad been found dead in bed at the Bailarat Hotel, Arrowtown. The deceased is believed to have relatives in South Ihmedin. Whangarei, .May 8. .licensee of the Hukerenui Hotel, was shot in the leg on Tuesday, and brought to the hospital at Whangarei. He heard a shot, and ' felt a sting in bis thigh. It is not known who fired the shot, which went in his thigh and trouser Meg to below the knee; eleven inches in all, after first penetrating corrugated iron, ic then buried itself in the ground. Morgan previously lost his arm by a gunshot wound.

Another case of attempted suicide was brought before Mr A. Cooke, S.M., in the -New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, when George Harrison McComish, of Molcsworth Street, New Plymouth, was, on the application of Detective-Sergeant Boddam, remanded until Friday next, states the News. Late on Thursday night, Dr. Fookes was summoned to McG'omish's house, where he found him suffering from the effects of a dose of 'poison, evidently self-administered. He communicated with the police and McComish was arrested and lodged at the police tation. No reason has vet been assigned for his action.

A nasty accident befell an Invercargill territorial named Roderick. Diack at tlie Milton railway station on Saturday morning. He belonged to the C Battery, and was on his way home from the Matarae camp. With several of his mates he was riding on the top of a horse truck, when his head came into contact with a water pipe on the line, throwing him off the train, and he was carried along for about a dozen yards. At Balclutha the services of Dr. Brugh were requisitioned, and the doctor travelled as far as Kakapuaka with the sufferer, whom he found to have concussion of Hie brain. On arrival at (lore Diack was taken to the hospital, where he partly regained consciousness on Saturday night, and is now progressing favorably. Diack was solely responsible for the accident, as he haVl no right to be on the track at the time.